Leather-dressing.



NITED ADELBERT R. DAWLEY, OF ROME, NEW YORK.

LEATHER-DRESSlNG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,461, dated March 13, 1900.

Application filed fiept mb r 6, 1899. Serial No. 729,655. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADELBERT R. DAWLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rome, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Leather-Dressing; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention consists in the'compounding of certain substances given in substantially the proportions hereinafter described to form a leatherdressing which, besides preserving, finishing, and renderingwaterproof the leather to which it is applied, possesses the excellent quality of maintaining its normal paste-like consistency under varying temperatures, which property of the dressing will immediately commend itself to the user as a prevention from its running over the box, wasting, or soiling articles with which the box may be in contact, and from many other inconveniences.

To make one hundred gallons of the dressing, substantially the proportions given in the following recipe should be observed, from which may be calculated the various amounts necessary for the preparation of any desired quantity of the compound: Boil twenty-six and one-half gallons of saponified red oil and then add twenty teaspoonfnls of Humboldt blue and boil again for five minutes. Mix in thoroughly and separately, first, six and onehalf pounds of ivory-black, then one hundred and eighty pounds of paraffin, twenty-six gallons of West Virginia black oil, and, finally, add seven pounds of beeswax.

I prefer substantially the proportions above given, although they may be varied without departing from my invention.

bricating-oils are given off. The residuum is again distilled and more of the above oils derived therefrom in addition to black oil.

Saponified red oil is made from tallow and is impure oleic acid, which is a by-product in the manufacture of stearic and palmitic acids for the production of stearin candles.

To obtain the best results in applying the dressing, the leather should be clean and dry, when it may be thoroughly rubbed in with a cloth or the hands.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

The herein-described compound of substances, consisting of saponified red oil, Humboldt blue, ivory-black, paraffin, West Virginia black oil and beeswax, prepared substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ADELBERT R. DAWLEY.

lVitnesses: 7

P. R. HUGGINS,

G. W. DAVIS. 

